Summary: <p>Listen to episode 107 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secrets of Staying Young & Beautiful While Aging. Edited and adapted from “The Road to Seventy Years Young or The Unhabitual Way” by Emily Bishop. <br><br><strong><a title="Inspirational Living Podcast" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org">Self-Development Podcast</a> Excerpt</strong>: <em>"Sow a thought, reap an act; Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a destiny." Dreading decrepitude, infirmity, senility, we hasten their advance by this "thought-act-habit-destiny" process. William James says that it is the old fogyism element that tends to keep ideas unchanged. This old fogyism tendency, which according to his estimate begins to gain mastery over the majority of people by the time they are twenty-five years old, resents the new — the new fact, the new idea, the new methods — while genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving things in unhabitual, unexpected ways. <br><br>Unless we offer self-protective resistance to the neural tendencies of our beings, we shall become with the passing years tiresome repetitions of our former selves; each repetition being less vigorous, capable, and attractive than the previous one. Our bodies and our minds will become less buoyant and mobile, less capable of responding to new stimuli; we shall yield more and more to inertia. We shall become "set in our ways" — in a word, unquestionably, old. </em></p><br> <p><strong>Related Self-Development Podcasts:</strong></p><br> <p><a title="Advice on Life" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/inspirational-life-lessons-for-adults-young-old/">Inspirational Life Lessons for Adults</a></p><br> <p><a title="Anti-Aging Tips" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/how-to-look-younger-anti-aging-tips/">How to Look Younger</a></p>
